<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> I loved your threads Shriram! Really want to go to Italy now, I haven&#39;t been since we met in Rome in 2015 at Ecoop(?)</p><p>(really random association, but are you watching The Law According to Lidia Poët? I have no clue what your taste in series is, but it&#39;s possible that you might enjoy it. 19th century Italy, the very best clothes, feminism, love, crime and anarchists)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> thank you, this was a delight to see and read. ❤️</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> psst <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tech.lgbt/@nelson" class="u-url mention">@<span>nelson</span></a></span> 👀↑↑ 🌍🗺️📸📝</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> Yes, Silicon Valley was and is way larger, and I would say not nearly as unique. Florence in the Renaissance had, what, a population of 30000 or so? Basically a wide spot in the road between Santa Clara and San Jose 😝 (adjacent cities in Silicon Valley, for non-Bay-Area readers). How did the lightning strike in such a tiny spot??</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> possibly??</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://discuss.systems/@irene" class="u-url mention">@<span>irene</span></a></span> Ah, at CEUB?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://norcal.social/@UweHalfHand" class="u-url mention">@<span>UweHalfHand</span></a></span> Right. People keep talking about &quot;how do we reproduce Silicon Valley&quot; (or at least used to), and don&#39;t think enough Florence in the same breath.</p><p>It really is stark how the art quality dropped off when it went from being a republic to dukedom.</p>

<p>In short: The brain is an analog machine not like a computer that uses logic reasoning.</p>

<p>The brain is a biological machine built from continuous, noisy, parallel components that learn by adjusting analog connection strengths. Its intelligence emerges from this fundamentally analog substrate, not from executing discrete logical operations. Neural computation is inherently noisy and probabilistic.The exact timing of a spike or the release of neurotransmitters involves randomness. Information is often encoded in population averages or statistical patterns, not precise single-bit values</p>